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It is absolutely impossible for modern teens to be more annoying than I was. I was a Reddit teir edgelord atheist as a teenager. And used to constantly stir the pot at school for no reason other than to piss the teachers off. Turns out some 15 year old kid who thinks he's got everything figured out insulting your whole belief system to rile the class up is very effective at that.

Teens today are sexting, twerking, gaming, hot chiping and lying.

I'm pretty sure it is your job to stir the pot as a teenager. I'd better be pissed at each of you young people. Do something outrageous in support of your values. Fuck whatever world we currently find ourselves in. It is bullshit.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Say what you will about the zoomies but my generation was responsible for 4chan and 9gag. Their contribution to the destruction of Western civilization pales in comparison, and quite frankly I'm disappointed.

I wasn't annoying as a teenager and I deeply regret it. Wasted those years of my life

I defy modern teens to be worse and more annoying than I was

The kids are the best. I have a young adult kid and he and his friends have taught me all I know about neurotype, gender, communism, acceptance and introduced me to people like Hasan which was my first step into proper leftism. Without my kid I probably would not be here.

I also love how they create safe spaces, how they stand up for things, my kid walked away from a work rehearsal where they used racist and misogynistic language. I never probably would have, back when I was a teen it was totally ok to comment my body and if someone touched you, you kind of had to just suck it up and move on.

My heart breaks at how my gen and those before me have broken this world for them. I work with young adults in my work that have been left behind by this system. They are the best humans, each struggling in pretty horrible ways in the world we are leaving them. This is a big reason why I am all for revolution.

I’ve found teens to be more kind in general than my peers were at their age. I think being a shithead, but erring on the side of being an aggressively kind shithead, is a pretty good place to be.

Heard a kid the other day yell, “Shut the fuck up, stop being mean to yourself, and let me help you, fuckface!” Good energy, tbh. More of that.

My experience (late 90s) is entirely anecdotal and I’m really not familiar with teen culture in 2023, but I suspect we were way worse. It wasn’t just how pervasive bullying was. It was how non-conformity was treated. I knew someone who was mocked for liking anime. There were a few guys who would play MTG before school started - just off in a corner not bothering anyone. And they got mocked. And in a school of nearly 2,000 students, there wasn’t even 1 kid who was openly gay. Of course there were gay students but none of them dared to be open about it to anyone other than close friends, I can’t imagine how bad it would have been for them.

And all this time, by the 90s bullying occupied this space where it wasn’t sort of encouraged like in past generations. It was “bad” but no one felt it was something that had to be specifically addressed and rooted out.

I get the impression things are a lot better now in this area, while teens do have challenges that we didn’t have. Academic and extracurricular performance seems to cause way more stress today. And then there’s the who social media aspect.

But overall yeah, we were way worse.

I've taught long enough for me to say from my own experience: naaaah.

I'm Hexbear's resident wokescold and I'll say the kids are different but not really worse overall than when I started. There's a lot less homophobia and even transphobia is on the wane somewhat, so there's that.

An unfortunate number of them are Tate-R-Tots right now, but hopefully that will fade because they tend to be assholes the other kids stay away from anyway.

Teens today are more annoying because they aren't getting in enough trouble. We've sterilized the idea of youth. When I was a kid our parents were freaked out by the Jacob Wetterling abduction and we were always under close supervision. Meanwhile, my dad and his buddies would tell crazy stories from their childhood. My dad was smoking cigarettes when he was 9 years old and started a fire in bunch of tall grass along the riverbank. Fire dept showed up and had to control the fire. Poor kids got it way worse than I did growing up I the 90's.

Today's teens aren't annoying enough. I was way more obnoxious at that age.

They were talking about this on the most recent Boonta Vista lol. The boomerification of millennials has begun!

Teens are worse and more annoying, but its not their fault. They have no future prospects, climate change is here, all forms of mainstream media is trash, social media dominates everything, algorithms on these websites keep suggesting they watch fascists, lose family members to a pandemic that everyone stopped caring about. Like wtf are you meant to do other than be more annoying?

I was a weapons grade shit head. So much so that I joined the Marines and further arrested my development. I basically stayed a shit head teen for an additional 4 years. Kids these days are actually more responsible than I was.

im pretty sure kids have always been annoying, but attention spans might be more fried today. I feel like mine is fried, i cant imagine what it might be like for someone who has known phone apps their whole life.

I'm a teacher and the kids are allright. Different than when I was their age, sure, but not worse.

i was the quiet kid with the mile long death stare so i dont think it was possible for me to be annoying

probably more scary

Teenagers have always been annoying. There's probably some hieroglyphics somewhere asking why the teenagers are so loud and stupid.

It's tradition that every generation critiques the media consumption of the next, but I feel strongly that advertisement laden, AI generated Elsa and Spiderman content with subway surfers underneath makes for dogshit attention spans. How could you focus on anything? You're in a decaying empire and see no hope for the future and your teacher getting paid $14/hr isnt going to disagree with you. It's got to be such a bleak and nihilistic humor. I was laughing at 9/11 to be edgy, you're huffing Andrew Tate and Trackmania so hard you couldn't think of a joke to regurgitate about our planet burning. I've seen the shit that my friend has for her child in her iPad and how he has to ask her to pay for these shitty little mobile games. I wish he would just play an old Pokemon game but I doubt it could hold his attention.

My gen alpha equivalent has to be a little goblin. There's no way they're not. They might still rebel the same and be similarly annoying/delinquent, but there has to be some consequences for their consumption: media or otherwise (food, political discourse, privatized public space)

of course they're annoying, that's the point of teenagers
they probably seem more annoying because we're exposed to more of their annoyingness through the internet
there do seem to be more fashy teens now, but that could also just be because of the internet

No, you're just getting older and your tolerance for annoyance is going away along with whatever little collagen-production capacity your body has.

No, we're just becoming aged

The 90s were 3 decades ago, btw

Nope we were worse. didnt read anything but we didnt have the entire populace being internet brained to call out weirdo behavior